Following on from the essay above, here’s another group of stupid people:
Too many BBC journalists ‘lack understanding of basic economics’ which is creating a risk to its impartiality, an independent review has found.
A report commissioned by the broadcaster said the corporation’s economics reporting is guilty of ‘uninformed groupthink’ and dominated too much by the Westminster version of events.
More like the Kremlin- or Beijing version, but that’s a topic for another time.
It added there was a ‘lack of confidence’ to challenge mainstream arguments, along with at times a ‘temptation to hype’ in this area of reporting.
Yup. Add ignorance to “if it bleeds, it leads”, and you have pretty much encapsulated all journalism, not just BBC journalism.
This is one reason why when a Socialist politician states that a tax rate reduction is going to “cost” money, it’s solemnly reported as fact when it’s actually not only economically illiterate, but historically refutable.
“It must be true, I read it in the paper” has as much credence as “it must be true, I read it on the Internet”. Depending on the topic, maybe even less.
And we won’t even talk about journalists on the topic of firearms, where their ignorance is positively Bidenesque.
